Mantra: Music for Sinfonietta | BIS BIS2340

Mantra: Music for Sinfonietta

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2340

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th November 2018

Contents

Artists

Espen Aalberg (gamelan)
Kristin Norderval (soprano)
Else Bo (piano)
Trondheim Sinfonietta

Conductor

Kai Grinde Myrann

Works

Hosokawa, Toshio

Drawing for 8 players

Lindquist, Ellen

Mantra (concerto for gamelan and sinfonietta)

Norderval, Kristin

Chapel Meditation for voice and plucked piano

Sorensen, Bent

Minnelieder: Zweites Minnewater

Artists

Espen Aalberg (gamelan)
Kristin Norderval (soprano)
Else Bo (piano)
Trondheim Sinfonietta

Conductor

Kai Grinde Myrann

About

On this disc, the Trondheim Sinfonietta, founded in 1998, has gathered four works from the three decades encompassing the ensemble’s existence. All four seem to be haunted by an even deeper past: Bent Sørensen’s Minnelieder is the composer’s third version of a work originally sparked-off by a book about the 14th century, while Toshio Hosokawa’s Drawing, from a decade later, was inspired by the very start of life. Kristin Norderval’s Chapel Meditation began its existence as an improvisation, but looks back to music from centuries earlier, while the most recent work, Mantra by Ellen Lindquist, also mines a venerable musical tradition, that of the age-old Indonesian gamelan orchestra that for over 100 years has had an influence on Western composers such as Debussy, Britten, Steve Reich et al. Set for varying forces and numbers of performers, the four works together form a fascinating picture of the kaleidoscopic possibilities open to composers around the turn of the millennium.

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